Iron Curtains ? by Maria Vlček

“…This paper explores the emotional and multi-sensorial dimensions of care within a transnational family separated by the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. It will argue that processes of supportive and compassionate engagement amongst transnational kin are not only shaped by long-distance communication, financial support and practical help within specific political and economic contexts, but also by personal desires and interpersonal conflict. …”
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Lifting the iron curtain of vision by Boris Rosin, Jose‐Alain Sahel

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The Politics of Propaganda: Myth and Reality of the Iron Curtain by Tiasha Roy

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Pop Art in Animation Behind the Iron Curtain: by Andreas Trossek

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USA and Huawei, the Creation of a Technological Iron Curtain by Ionuţ – Alexandru Ciucan

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The Rhetoric of Geopolitical Fiction in Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech by Florian Andrei VLAD

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On both sides of the iron curtain: Ivan Bunin and Antonin Ladinsky by Anastasia Gorobets

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Trumpeting through the iron curtain: The breakthrough of jazz in socialist Yugoslavia by Vučetić Radina

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Stalinization, de-Stalinization, and re-Stalinization. 1953 behind the “Iron Curtain” by Rafał Opulski

“…The aim of the article is to present the changesthattook place after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 in the Soviet Union and in somecountriesincluded in its “externalempire”. The “Iron Curtain”, which divided the worldintotwoparts, began to shiftafter the Generalissimo’sdeath and revealed differences in the approach of individualcountries to the „newcourse” announced by Stalin’ssuccessors. …”
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Behind the Iron Curtain: Sylvia Plath and Hungary during the Cold War by Dorka TAMÁS

“…On the other hand, while Plath experienced the Cold War context in the West, Hungary was part of the Iron Curtain of the East. There are parallels and opposition between Plath’s perception of the early stages of the Cold War and Hungary’s history. …”
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‘Greetings from the Zonal Border’. Tourism to the Iron Curtain in West Germany by Astrid M. Eckert

“…This article investigates the little known phenomenon of tourism to the Iron Curtain, using the example of the inter-German border. …”
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A dissection of trading capital: trade in the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain by Beestermoeller, M, Rauch, F

“…We study trade in Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and show that the countries of the former AustroHungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another after 1989 than predicted by a standard gravity model. …”

Petr Bubeníček, Subversive Adaptations. Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain by Maria Chiorean

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['Is there something behind the Iron Curtain? Documentation and conservation of Modernism in former Eastern Europe'] by Henrieta Moravčíková

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Daniel Elphick, Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries by Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska

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['Is there something behind the Iron Curtain? Documentation and conservation of Modernism in former Eastern Europe'] by Henrieta Moravčíková

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Kirjanduslikest kontaktidest läbi raudse eesriide / Literary contacts through the iron curtain by Marin Laak

“…This revealing fact verifies that regardless of shadow of the iron curtain, good relationships existed between the two literary and artistic worlds, despite the absence of official relationships, and that from the literary historiographical perspective there are grounds for treating Estonian literature as a single process.  …”
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Machteld Venken, Straddling the Iron Curtain? Immigrants, Immigrant Organizations, War Memories by Snježana Gregurović

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Hard Ground-Soft Politics: The Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and Biting of the Iron Curtain by Wiktor Komorowski

“…The network of dedicated international print exhibitions created favourable conditions for an emerging third space, which became a platform for communication between the cultures divided by the Iron Curtain. This article focuses on the curatorial assumptions that brought the Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana to life and questions its position as a cultural cornerstone for the Non-Aligned geopolitical order.…”
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Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain by Thomas Ubbesen

“…Thomas Ubbesen reviews Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain, edited by Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack.…”
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